David Hartman
Birthday: September 11, 1931 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Rabbi Prof. David Hartman was a leading thinker among philosophers of contemporary Judaism and an internationally renowned Jewish author.In 1971, Prof. Hartman immigrated to Israel from Montreal with ...Show More
The establishment of the modern State of Israel has removed us from the insulated world of the ghett Show more
The establishment of the modern State of Israel has removed us from the insulated world of the ghetto and has exposed Judaism and the Jewish people to the judgment of the world. We can no longer hide our weaknesses and petty failings. We live in total exposure.We must therefore define who we are by what we do and not by any obsession with the long and noble history of Jewish suffering. In coming back to our land and rebuilding our nation, we have chosen to give greater moral weight to our actions in the present than to noble dreams of the future or to the memories of our heroic past. Hide
The centrality of mitzvah in Judaism shatters egocentricity and demands of the Jew that he judge him Show more
The centrality of mitzvah in Judaism shatters egocentricity and demands of the Jew that he judge himself by the way he acts and not by mystical myths regarding the purity or uniqueness of the Jewish soul. Na'aseh ve-nishma (we will do and we will understand) was the response of our people at Sinai. We understand ourselves through our doing. Hide
David Hartman's FILMOGRAPHY
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